Welcome to Arrest Stories. A twenty-nine-year-old Brooklyn man has been arrested and charged in connection with a two thousand twenty-one acid attack that severely injured a Hofstra University student in Nassau County. Here's what may have happened.
On March seventeenth, two thousand twenty-one, twenty-one-year-old Nafiah Ikram was in the driveway of her Elmont home at approximately eight thirty in the evening, gathering items from her car after returning from work at CVS in Baldwin. According to police reports, an attacker wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and gloves rushed up behind her and splashed sulfuric acid in her face.
Ikram immediately panicked. "I started panicking. I was like, 'Dad, someone threw something in my face!' And he was like, 'Oh my God, it's acid,'" Ikram stated. The acid struck her face, chest, neck, hands and arms, going into her eyes and mouth. She suffered severe burns and her eyesight was damaged.
The attacker fled in a red Nissan Altima. Nearby surveillance cameras captured grainy video showing the assailant as mostly a blur, with additional footage showing the red vehicle a block away from Ikram's home.
The case remained unsolved for years until new information from the community and cooperation from tech companies led investigators to Terrell Campbell. Police discovered Campbell's internet search history from the minutes following the two thousand twenty-one attack included searches for "how do I remove sulfuric acid from my car's fabric."
In two thousand twenty-three, Campbell, an aspiring rapper, recorded a song called "Obsidian" with lyrics boasting about the attack. "I'm discreet in the night, like a hitman assassin. Try to run up and have your face burn in acid," the lyrics stated.
Nassau County District Attorney Anne Donnelly said, "It's sickening. He bragged on the internet for everyone to see. He thought after several years without an arrest that he was home free."
Campbell was arraigned on Tuesday, February tenth, pleaded not guilty, and is being held without bail. His next court hearing is scheduled for February eighteenth.
Ikram stated she never heard Campbell's name before the arrest and still does not know why she was targeted.
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